take shape

Idioms  

1. Also, shape up. Turn out, develop, acquire a distinctive form, as in Her reelection campaign is already taking shape, two years before the election, or Can you tell us how the book is shaping up? The first term dates from the mid-1700s and the variant, originally put as shape out, from about 1600.

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Example Sentences

That echoed a similar retreat in software stocks that took shape last week after investors homed in on Anthropic’s announcement that it was adding new legal tools to its Cowork assistant.

From The Wall Street Journal

These elements, including sulfur, exist in solid form within the protoplanetary disk where planets take shape.

From Science Daily

He loved that the words on the page came to life in his mind, like blobs of watercolor taking shape.

From Literature

Because these essential traits were already established, scientists seeking to understand how life first took shape must look even further back in time, to evolutionary events that occurred before this shared ancestor existed.

From Science Daily

Insurance ETF, a bull flag has taken shape.

From Barron's

Related Words

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